In 1879, Canon Thomas Frederick Simmons edited the late medieval poem now known as
The Lay Folks’ Mass Book creating what remains the standard edition of the text. This volume shows how Simmons’ interest in the text was related profoundly to contemporary debates about worship in the Church of England, and how he used his medievalist researches as the basis for the most important attempt at Prayer Book revision between the Reformation and the twentieth century.
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Preface
Introduction: Imagining the Past
1.Thomas Frederick Simmons and the
Lay Folks’ Mass Book
2.Re-imagining Medieval Devotion: Nineteenth-Century Conceptions of the En...
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Jeremy Smith was professor of English philology at Glasgow, where he remains a senior research fellow and emeritus professor, and an honorary professor at St Andrews. H...